Meet the Autumn Queen by Novomatic

Autumn Queen is the new title from Novomatic which brings warm autumn scenery in a 5×4 reel layout with 40 paylines playable on desktop and mobile devices.

Images of bears, falcons and deer will spin before your eyes together with her majesty the red-haired Queen, while you wait for the Free Spins round which is the main and only attraction in the game.

The experienced developer has decided to go with a classic approach this time both in terms of style and functionality.

So there definitely won’t be any special gimmicks or life-changing jackpot prizes, but that doesn’t mean that Autumn Queen has nothing to offer. Play along and you might just win up to 80 Free Spins with stacked symbols all over the reels.

What We Love

This is a typical Novomatic game so we felt at home spinning the sharp looking reels set against the crimson background.

The theme itself combines pretty random imagery starting from the Queen and wild animals, to the Scatter symbol depicted as Crystal Ball.

However, neither graphics nor sounds interfere with the overall user experience and the colours are pleasing to the eye, so we can say that the audiovisual part of the game gets the passing grade.

The highlight of the game is a typical game of Free Spins which offers a chance to win even 80 of them if you land a screenful of Crystal Balls. Don’t expect this to happen often as the Autumn Queen is pretty volatile.

To activate the free play you will need 5 or more Crystal Balls but counting from left to right. So if you don’t get Scatters on the first reel, there is no chance of winning the Free Spins. Once you manage to hit the winning combination watch out for additional Crystal Balls as each one brings 5 extra Free Spins.

During the Free Spins the Queen will assist you by adding another feature. She will cover the reels with piles of leaves and then reveal one symbol beneath all of them. This is meant to increase your chances of winning.

What we like about Novomatic pokiesis that they always have the Gamble feature where you can double your wins. Of course, you could lose them as well, but you can’t win if you are not willing to take the risk.

What We Do Not Like

What we definitely find lacking in Autumn Queen is a random in-play feature to add the excitement to the boring dry spells and there will be plenty of them in this high-variance game.

Also, more often than not the Autumn Queen Bonus feature reveals low-paying card symbols, which doesn’t promise hefty prizes.

Worth Playing?

We have our doubts about the Autumn Queen. In most aspects it does pretty well, but it doesn’t excel at any. The graphics and the sound effects are good enough but they don’t leave any kind of impression.

The symbols are paying nicely and the option of winning 80 Free Spins sounds promising, but the game is highly volatile and you will have to spend some money until you get the chance to win. All in all, you won’t miss anything if you skip the Autumn Queen Pokie.